beating LP cover lover
You know I love the LP Cover Lover site, and all the wild and wacky album artwork they find. Imagine my suprise when I went to step brothers hut last week and found that he had an entire stack of bona-fide LP Cover Lover site worthy gems! Some friend of his let him -borrow- them or something like that...said the records were from his parents collection or something. As I was flipping through the stack there was one cover that really just stood out from the group.
Holy Crap! First off, the main color is some sort of chrome ink that must have cost a fortune. Maybe the paper itself was some sort of chrome finish and they printed on top of that. However they did it, it had to be expensive. Secondly...Pagan Festival? Are you kidding me? How freakin rad is that?
On the flip, there isw the standard wordy bio of Dominic Frontiere and a track listing. Check out this tracklist:
Festival
House of Dawn (Paccari-Tampu)
Temple of Suicide (Ixtab)
Moon Goddess (Ixchel)
Time of Sunshine (Yaxkin)
Goddess of Love (X-Tabai)
House of Pleasure (Tampu-Anca)
The Harvest (Zax)
Corn Festival (Zabacil Than)
God of Seasons (Kukulkan)
Jaguar God (Balam)
Venus Girl (Ix-Koben)
Total Cheese! The vinyl is in practically perfect condition and I couldn't wait to hear it. I expected it to be percussion heavy sort of stuff, but it ended up being decent but run of the mill exotica not quite on the level of Esquivel, but tight enough that it sort of made you want to be drinking the kind of drink that you use a swizzle stick for.
So now the record is here, in MY stack of stuff, which I find amusing. My brother just sort of dropped it off. I dunno if he is going to take it back at some point or what, but I hope he sort of forgets about it. The original owner couldn't possible appreciate it the way I do.
My favorite part of the rear cover is the last thing it says near the bottom, the Columbia standard blurb:
This Columbia High Fidelity Recording is scientifically designed to play with the highest quality reproduction phonograph of your choice, new or old. If you are the owner of a new stereophonic system, this record will play with even more brilliant true-to-life fidelity. In short you can purchase this record with no fear of it becoming obsolete in the future.
I just love that last sentence for some reason. Of course they are talking about the playback method and vinyl as a medium, but the irony just ratchets up 1000% when you take into account the material ON the record. lulz.
What I am really interested in though, is the person who actually saw this in a store, took it up to the counter and bought it. I would just love to know this person. I would love to know what they thought of the record.
Holy Crap! First off, the main color is some sort of chrome ink that must have cost a fortune. Maybe the paper itself was some sort of chrome finish and they printed on top of that. However they did it, it had to be expensive. Secondly...Pagan Festival? Are you kidding me? How freakin rad is that?
On the flip, there isw the standard wordy bio of Dominic Frontiere and a track listing. Check out this tracklist:
Festival
House of Dawn (Paccari-Tampu)
Temple of Suicide (Ixtab)
Moon Goddess (Ixchel)
Time of Sunshine (Yaxkin)
Goddess of Love (X-Tabai)
House of Pleasure (Tampu-Anca)
The Harvest (Zax)
Corn Festival (Zabacil Than)
God of Seasons (Kukulkan)
Jaguar God (Balam)
Venus Girl (Ix-Koben)
Total Cheese! The vinyl is in practically perfect condition and I couldn't wait to hear it. I expected it to be percussion heavy sort of stuff, but it ended up being decent but run of the mill exotica not quite on the level of Esquivel, but tight enough that it sort of made you want to be drinking the kind of drink that you use a swizzle stick for.
So now the record is here, in MY stack of stuff, which I find amusing. My brother just sort of dropped it off. I dunno if he is going to take it back at some point or what, but I hope he sort of forgets about it. The original owner couldn't possible appreciate it the way I do.
My favorite part of the rear cover is the last thing it says near the bottom, the Columbia standard blurb:
This Columbia High Fidelity Recording is scientifically designed to play with the highest quality reproduction phonograph of your choice, new or old. If you are the owner of a new stereophonic system, this record will play with even more brilliant true-to-life fidelity. In short you can purchase this record with no fear of it becoming obsolete in the future.
I just love that last sentence for some reason. Of course they are talking about the playback method and vinyl as a medium, but the irony just ratchets up 1000% when you take into account the material ON the record. lulz.
What I am really interested in though, is the person who actually saw this in a store, took it up to the counter and bought it. I would just love to know this person. I would love to know what they thought of the record.